Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Ubuntu Linux
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 90 -
Rank change year-on-year -26 - -
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 4 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.16% 0.45% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.21% 2.34% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - £279 -
25th Percentile £506 £322 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £413 -
Median % change year-on-year +65.15% - -
75th Percentile £850 £522 -
90th Percentile - £576 -
England median daily rate £500 £475 £438
% change year-on-year +5.26% +8.57% -20.45%

All Operating Systems
East of England

Ubuntu falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 331 256 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.64% 19.16% 17.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 132 122
10th Percentile £163 £170 £213
25th Percentile £188 £200 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £448 £450
Median % change year-on-year -41.34% -0.56% -2.44%
75th Percentile £511 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 - -
England median daily rate £472 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.89% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 67 37
10th Percentile £17.00 £15.50 £44.50
25th Percentile £48.84 £20.70 £55.65
Median hourly rate £68.75 £42.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.76% -34.62% +209.52%
75th Percentile £73.32 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £60.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -58.08% +30.78%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ubuntu relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the East of England

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the East of England region over the 6 months to 7 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire -2 2 £513 +24.24% 3
Hertfordshire - 2 £850 -
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
3 2 (50.00%) InfluxDB
3 2 (50.00%) Redis
3 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (25.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Gerrit
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Python Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Celery
1 2 (50.00%) Django
1 2 (50.00%) Jolokia
1 2 (50.00%) JWT
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
1 2 (50.00%) Vue
2 1 (25.00%) LAMP
2 1 (25.00%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (25.00%) LDAP
2 1 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Rocky
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) AI
3 2 (50.00%) API Design
3 2 (50.00%) Application Security
3 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) Groovy
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Coverity
1 1 (25.00%) Perforce